Hey everyone. I hope this in the right subforum, mods please move if I've put this thread in the wrong place. So I'm currently looking for a tablet or e-reader that I would be using primarily to read tabletop RPG book pdfs, which tend to be larger in format that most e-books. (Common dimensions on p...

2646.3 + 3.3 = 2649.6 Ran a little further a little faster today. Am now extremely tired. I'm sure the two aren't related at all. My iPod now has radio function, which is awesome because then I stop paying attention to my running. I love that feeling when I suddenly look around and I'm like, "W...

Just a quick heads up for whoever's sending me something: I won't be able to tell you if I've gotten it or not for at least another 3-5 days, as I'm currently visiting family 400 miles away from where the sending address is.

Your package came in the mail today Wolf. Many thanks! Tea and socks are incredible, and finally someone gives me a book that'll take more than a few days to read. Also, scifi magazines are my favorite, and you picked the one that I'm not already subscribed to. Thanks! Sweet! I'm glad it got there ...

Will be posting my gift tomorrow. Should still get there in time. I was tricked by my local post office! (They close half an hour earlier than I thought they did, and I'm a dolt who didn't finish getting everything together until the last minute. Whoops.) I'll edit this post with some pictures of th...

Ugh, look at this... http://threeguysonebook.com/50-things-a-writer-shouldnt-do That was pretty amazingly bad/subjective advice. What really annoyed me was that a lot of the points could have been made more legitimate if they'd bothered to expand on them at all. For example, having a character neve...

Oxford dress shirts are so named because of the fabric they're made of and can, theoretically, be in any design. I can't find any sources that suggest not wearing an oxford dress shirt with a suit or blazer. Can you? I'm interested now. I think he's not so much referring to the cloth as the button-...

Guh, I want to vomit. And sleep. Spoiler'd for sick person whining: So my stomach's been upset for the past two days. Today during my evening class it started feeling a little acidic, even though I'd been eating and drinking nothing but crackers and ginger ale, so I went to the store and got...

FT: I wish I'd had an extra hour to finish this programming lab, because then I could turn it in early and get extra credit instead of just getting in on time. (Which, given how catastrophically badly I did on the midterm, I sorely need.) Less-than-FT: When my lab buddy suggests a much more robust i...

At this point I have bad backpacking form. Using a literally empty backpack is the only way for me to currently walk in good backpacking form with my backpacking backpack. I happen to have lost the internal divider in my backpacking backpack that is supposed to allow me to carry small loads, by put...

Woo, just started sketching again, and here's the first one: 20100503.jpeg Now I just need to keep practicing. . . EDIT: Also, apologies for the sloppy scan, but I need to go to bed and I figured I was just lucky my all-in-one *worked* under Ubuntu. I'll work on becoming a decent scanner later. :)

For yesterday: Low: Not being able to focus well at all on my work, leading me to get much less done than I wanted to. High: Got a burst of energy around 11 PM that let me get more done than I thought I would. (Midterm + Project + Research Proposal (to get a stipend to stay at uni for the summer) sp...

I just read an interesting blog entry about the tea baggers and white privilege. http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html another way to look at it. That was an excellent article. Thanks for the link! (I would write more, but I have a research propos...

Man, why do awesome games always manage to come out right *after* my birthday. That irrelevant bit aside, I'm pretty excited that it's going to be coming out this year. Hopefully I'll have some scratch to be able to pick it up on release. I'd like to experience it pre-memeification this time, if at ...

FT: I would really liek to read Lackadaisy, but I don't really want to read a furry comic... Eh, don't sweat it. A lot of them just use the genre to be able to make the characters more expressive/cartoony. And besides, if you don't like it, you can just stop reading it. (Plus, at least the xkcd for...

FT: Goddamn, while doing black box and white box testing may be fairly easy (at least, in the context of the class assignment I'm doing them for), it's taken me all night when it should have taken me 2 hours start to finish. Mostly because I'm sick and keep getting distracted by all the other, non-t...